Consciously Competent Quotes

#1. The Incredible Five-Point Scale (Buron & Curtis, 2004).

Jennifer Byde Myers

#2. It's not Brittney's face, not her smile, not even her eyes. All of that surface stuff made the world see her as beautiful, but it was the deeper stuff that made her different.

Simone Elkeles

#3. Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

Armstrong Williams

#4. It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.

Petrus Borel

#5. Tell stories that matter. Diction is about characters who don't exist, but their pain and sorrow and joy are very real.

Brenda Rothert

#6. The price of culture is a Lie.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#7. The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

Levon Helm

#9. I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

Angel Haze

#10. Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage - work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.

Judy LaMarsh

#11. Some men don't eat pussy. I think those men are pussies.

C.J. Roberts

#12. You know why you keep losing, 'cause, guess what, you're a fucking loser.

Andrea Portes